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The Solitude of Latin America

Gabriel García Márquez

Translated by Marina Castañeda

Gabriel García Márquez’s 1982 Nobel Prize speech, translated by Marina Castañeda.

Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist.

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Translated by Marina Castañeda

Marina Castañeda was born in Mexico City in 1956. She has translated writing by Gabriel García Márquez and Carlos Fuentes, and is the author of La experiencia homosexual, El machismo invisible, Escuchar(nos) and Una vida homosexual.

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